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More of Hacking Team’s capabilities and questionable actions revealed

The Hacking Team data leak has shown us with whom the company does business with, and their employees’ and management’s unguarded opinions about various …

Flawed Android backup mechanism can lead to injected malicious apps

A flaw (CVE-2014-7952) in Android’s backup/restore mechanism can be exploited by knowledgeable developers to “respawn” malicious apps on phones, and make …

First Java zero-day in two years exploited by Pawn Storm hackers

Another zero-day vulnerability is being exploited in attacks spotted in the wild: this time, the targeted software is Java.The flaw was spotted by Trend Micro researchers, who …

Mobile SSL failures: More common than they should be

Securing your mobile application traffic is apparently more difficult than it should be, as researchers Anthony Trummer and Tushar Dalvi discovered when looking into SSL/TLS …

Two more Flash 0-day exploits found in Hacking Team leak, one already exploited in the wild

Exploits for two more Adobe Flash 0-days have been found in the leaked Hacking Team data. The existence of the vulnerabilities has been acknowledged by Adobe with a security …

Apple to introduce two-factor authentication option in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan

Starting with OS X 10.11 (“El Capitan”) and iOS 9, Apple will introduce a two-factor authentication option that will replace the current two-step verification …

VMware fixes host privilege escalation bug in Workstation, Player, Horizon View

VMware has issued software updates for VMware Workstation, Player, and Horizon View Client for Windows, which fix relatively serious a host privilege escalation vulnerability …

Sensitive info of over 21.5M people, including SSNs and fingerprints, stolen in OPM hack

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has revealed on Thursday the full extent of the information stolen in the two data breaches it suffered in 2014.In the first …

FBI director insists Silicon Valley can solve the encryption dilemma – if they try hard enough

On Wednesday, the US Senate Judiciary Committee got to hear from FBI director James Comey and DOJ Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates on how end-to-end encryption …

Severe OpenSSL bug that allows certificate forgery has been plugged

The wait is over: the OpenSSL Project has issued security updates for the popular open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols, and has shared some details about …

Cyber attack on US power grid could result in losses up to $1 trillion

When, on Wednesday, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading, The Wall Street Journal website went down, and United Airlines grounded flights – all practically at the …

Hacking Team’s Flash 0-day exploit used against Korean targets before it was leaked

The Adobe Flash zero-day (CVE-2015-5119) exploit found in the Hacking Team’s leaked data has already been added to several exploit kits, but Trend Micro researchers have …

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